Coin-controlled mechanism



G. L. HUFF.

com CONTROLLED MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1918.

Patented June 22, 1920. 2 2 Fig. 2

2 6 m VENTOR. Gilbert L. Huff,

ATTORNEY.

i To all whom it may concern:

GILBERT L. HUFF, "OF HOLDENVILLE, OKLAHOMA.

COIN-CONTROLLED. MECHANISM. 1

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented June 22, 1920.

Application filed May 6, 1918. Serial n. 232,859.

Be it known that I, GILBERT citizen of the United States of Amerlca, residing. at the city of Holdenville, county of Hughes, State of Oklahoma, have invented a certain new and useful Coin-Controlled Mechanism, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exactdescription as will enable any one skilled inthe art to which it' appertains to make and use the. same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to acoinfcontrolled mechanism and more particularlyito one in which the mechanism momm controls a suitable vending device, but 'at the same time registersfthe amount of the various coins upon a si'ngle -register. l

The object of my invention is to provide a coin controlled mechanism of the class above referred to which .will be simple in constructlon and reliable in' operation and not liable to get out of order. a

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate one form of coin controlled mechtion, Figure 1' is atop plan view, Fig. 2 is a sectiontaken on the line 2-'2 of, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is afrontview. .Fig. l is a section taken on the line 1-4 ofFig. 1. Fig. 5 is'a section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a development of a portion of the toothed wheel carried by the operating shaft, and Fig. 7 is an enlarged view, showing a detail of construction. I r

The frame of the device is. 'omposed of a pair ofend plates I'Oand. 11, secured together "by means of pillars 121,. J ournaled.

in the end plates 10 and 11 is an operating shaft =13 which has secured. to one end a hand wheel 145by means of which it maybe operated, and atythe other end is provided with an extension 15 which may be used to operate any suitable vending device, such as that shown in my prior appllcation #214,533

of January 30, 1918. Secured to the operating shaft 13 isa wheel 16" which for convenience in manufacture is preferably built .up of a'number of; disks of sheet .metal ,'the

number of disks 'corres onding'to the numtended to handle. vInthe present instance,

, the wheel is composed of three disks of.

' .Veeder register. fvided with a gear wheel 21 the'thicknes's ,of which isequal to that of the wheel16 .upon the operating shaft 13. In order to j with a single tooth 18, andanother with be brought into operating connection with the registering device as willv be hereafter described. 20 is a registering device which may be of any suitable kind. In the drawlngs, I have shown the well known form of The register 20 is proconnect the teeth on the wheel 16 with the wheel 21, I provide idler wheel 22 which is loosely mounted in an annular groove 23.

in a sleeve 24 sliding upon ashaft 25 The sleeve 24; is carried by a lever 26 in the general form of a bell crank. This lever 26 sprovided at the end opposite the sleeve 24 wlth an opening27'iadapted to slide on a guide rod 28. The" lever 26 is normally forced toward the plate 101by means of a Qcoil spring 29 surrounding the rod 25. The

lever 26"is providedwith a projection 30 8 0 .7 v iad'aptedt'o enter acam' slot 31 in the side anism made in accordance withmy lnvenof the wheel 16, said cam slot 31 being provided at one end with a beveled face 32 as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The projection 30 normallyvrests against the cam' 33 provided on its end with a pair of bear ing faces 34: and35 respectively,fas best shownin Fig; 7 of the drawings.

, 36 is a plate separated from. he end plate 10 by means of a pair of spacing blocks 37 and 38, best shown inFig. 5. of the drawings. This plate 36 has secured in it one end of the shaft 25 and also has secured to it one end of a plate 39, the other of which is secured to the endjplate 11, and supports the register 20 heretofore referred to. Secured to the spacing block 37 is a spring 40, which. her of different coins w ich the device is in forms one of the stops for supporting the coin in the machine, the other consisting of a fixed pin 11 secured in the plates 10 and 36. The spacing block 38 is provided with an inclinedsurface 42 against which the coin is adapted to strike as'it is discharged between the stops 40 and 41, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Pivoted between the plates 10 and 36 on a trunnion 43 is a bell crank lever 44 one end 45 of which is normally in the path of a finger 46 carried on the wheel 16. The other end 47 of the lever is adapted to be projected into the path of the arm 33 on the lever 26. The upper end of the bell crank lever 44 is provided with a face 48 which is preferably curved and which terminates in a shoulder 49 adapted to bear against a coin 50 when the same is supported between the stops 40 and 41. I The operation of my device is as follows:

The parts being in position as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the handle wheel 14 cannot be turned because the stop 46 on the wheel 16 bears against the end 45 of the bell crank lever 44. If, however, a coin is dropped between plates 10 and 36 the pressure of the coin against the face 48 of the bell crank lever 44 will force the upper end 47 of said lever forward and consequently move the arm 45 out of the path of the stop 46, which path is indicated by the dotted line A, Fig.v 5 of the drawings. The hand wheel 14 can now be operated to rotate the shaft 13 and consequently to actuate the vending mechanism to which the extension 15 is connected. In case a dime is dropped into the machine, the end 47 of the lever 44 will not be moved sufliciently to come between the end of the lever 33 and the plate 10 and consequently when the wheel 16 is moved to allow the projection 30to drop into the cam slot 31, the idler wheel 22 will be moved by the spring 29 until the face 34 of the arm 33 strikes against the end plate 10 and consequently the idler wheel 22 will be moved into the path of the teeth 17 so that when the shaft is rotating the register 20 will be operated to indicate ten; In case a penny is dropped into the machine the end 47 will be moved over sufliciently'to-come between the plate 10 and the bearing face 35 of the arm .33 so that theiwheel 22 will be moved over only sufficiently to engage with the tooth 18 and consequently to register one. Ifa five cent piece is dropped in position by the engagement of the projection 30 with the inclined end 32 of the cam slot 31, and consequently the machine will be in position for repeated operation. After the register has been operated, the arm 46 comes in contact with the inner face of the bell crank lever 44 and forces the said lever 'a register, a laterally movable gear between After registering has taken place, the idler 22 is returned to its normal.

back into its normal position. The action causes its shoulder 49 to force the coin 50 between the fixed stop 41 and the spring stop 40 so that the coin will be discharged with considerable force against the inclined face 42 of the block 38, and consequently the coins will be prevented from piling up below the mechanism. The wheels 16 can be turned by handle 14 only once around to register each coin, being stopped at the initial position by lever 46 after a complete rotation.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. I11 a coin controlled mechanism, the

combination with an operating shaft, of a toothed member operated from said shaft, a register, a laterally movable gear between combination with an operating shaft, of a toothed member operated from said shaft,

said toothed member and register, said toothed member being provided with a cam for returning said gear to normal position,

and a coin actuated member for controlling the'movement of said gear.

3. In a coin controlled mechanism, the

combination with an'operating shaft of a toothed member operated from said shaft, a register, a laterally movable gear between said toothed member and register, said toothed member being provided with a cam for releasing said gear and returning same to normal position, and a coin actuated stop for limiting the movement of said gear.

4; In a coin controlled mechanism, the

combination with an operating shaft, of a gear mounted on said shaft and provided with the plurality sets of teeth, a register having its shaft parallel with said operating shaft, a gear mounted on said register shaft, a laterallymovable gear for connecting the second named gear with one of the sets of teeth on said first named gear, and a coin controlled member for controlling the rotation of said operating shaft, said member also limiting the movement of said connecting gear.

5. In a coin controlled mechanism the combination with an operatingshaft, of a gear mounted on said shaft and provided with a plurality of sets of teeth, a register having its shaft parallel with said operating shaft, a gear mounted on said shaft, a laterally movable gear for connecting said second named gear with one of the sets of teeth, and a coin controlled member for controlling the rotation of said operating shaft, said member also limiting movement of said connecting gear, said first named gear being provided with a cam for returning said conne'cting gear to normal position. i

6. vIn a coin controlled mechanism, the combination with an operating shaft, of a register actuated from said shaft, a coin actuated lever, and a pair of stops, one of said stops being spring actuated, said lever being adapted to force the coin between said.

stops on its return to normal position.

7 In a coin controlled -mechanism, the 

